Proverbs 18: 24, 27: 17 and Ecc. 4: 9-10 18: 24 – One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 27:17, “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens the face his neigh- bor,” is almost universally seen as positive. Some view this…
Luke 18: 9-14 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even…
1 Samuel 17: 45-51 Facing the Giants [Read 1 Samuel 17:45-51] 45But David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46This very day the…
